Dimone Fleming, 22, who is allegedly suffering from postpartum depression, is charged with murder.
The woman in the Bronx borough of New York City has been accused of killing her two young sons, who were found dead in a bathtub, according to multiple reports.
Before finding the wounded children, police came out to the scene while responding to a call about a young woman acting erratically, where they found a “female, naked inside the apartment on the third floor, acting irrational,” Deceglie said.
The previous night, the children — 11-month-old Octavius Canada and 3-year-old Daishawn Fleming — were found with “multiple stab wounds” to their torsos and necks, according to Deputy Chief Louis Deceglie, who spoke about the incident at a news conference.
Fleming was taken into custody without incident and sent to a local hospital for evaluation. Police did not find the children at that time.
A few minutes later, a separate call came in to police regarding “two unresponsive babies, not breathing, at the same location.”
Upon entry, responders “found an 11-month-old baby boy and a 3-year-old male, unresponsive with multiple stab wounds about the body,” according to officials at the news conference.
It’s STILL unclear why the children were not discovered during the police’s first visit to the home.
The Times, citing a senior law enforcement official, reports the children were found in the bathtub.
Columbus Canada, 31, the father of one of the children, was the person who first found the injured kids, the Times reports. (Canada is not in custody or accused of any crime.)
“I heard the father yelling ‘Help me,’ a witness told CBS News, continuing, “I was watching out my window, the babies on their stretchers. The EMTs were doing CPR, and I couldn’t believe it.
“Officers and a family member tried to resuscitate the children, but both were later pronounced dead at a hospital.”
Fleming’s father, Dwane Fleming, told the Times that the young mom was recently experiencing a rough patch in her relationship with Canada. He also said relatives believed his daughter was suffering from postpartum depression.
After the incident, a neighbor told CBS News they had witnessed an agitated Fleming outside the shelter, asking what she’d done.
“I saw [her] acting crazy, [asking] ‘What I did, what I did, what I did?’ So I asked her what happened, you OK? But she said nothing,” Francis Pimentel recalled, according to CBS.
Before finding the wounded children, police came out to the scene while responding to a call about a young woman acting erratically, where they found a “female, naked inside the apartment on the third floor, acting irrational,” Deceglie said.
